Babble & Squeak is a community-focused podcast created to give people a voice, share lived experiences, and open up honest conversations around real-life issues that matter.
Hosted by Lisa Everett, a trained counsellor with 17 years of experience, the podcast is led by someone who has spent many years supporting vulnerable adults, working with complex needs, and helping individuals manage challenging behaviour, emotional wellbeing, and personal change.
Lisa brings both professional knowledge and real-life understanding to each conversation, creating a calm and welcoming space where guests feel comfortable speaking openly and honestly.
The podcast brings together guests from different backgrounds to explore important topics including mental health, gratitude, resilience, homelessness, ADHD, coercive control, gambling awareness, and many other everyday challenges people face.
Each episode is designed to be relatable, supportive, and thought-provoking — creating a space where people can speak honestly, learn from one another, and feel heard.
The aim of Babble & Squeak is simple: giving voices to people in the community. Through conversation, storytelling, and shared experience, the podcast encourages understanding, reduces stigma, and helps listeners feel connected.
Whether discussing personal journeys, recovery, wellbeing, or social issues, every episode offers real conversation with warmth, honesty, and purpose.
Series one
Episode 1 - Importance of Positive Mental Health
Our podcast explores the importance of positive mental health, emotional wellbeing, and the everyday steps people can take to build resilience and maintain balance in their lives. Through honest conversation and real experiences, we discuss how mental health affects confidence, relationships, recovery, motivation, and daily wellbeing.
The podcast highlights the value of talking openly, seeking support, and recognising that mental health is just as important as physical health. It also looks at practical ways to improve wellbeing, including routine, connection, self-care, positive thinking, and accessing the right support at the right time.
By sharing lived experiences and meaningful discussion, the podcast aims to encourage understanding, reduce stigma, and remind people that support is available and recovery is possible.
Episode 2 – “Gratitude”
In this powerful episode, Dez speaks openly about gratitude and how it has shaped his perspective on life, challenges, and personal growth. Through honest reflection and real-life experience, he explores how learning to appreciate even the smallest things can create strength during difficult times, improve wellbeing, and help build a more positive future. Dez shares a genuine and relatable conversation about resilience, perspective, and the importance of recognising value in everyday moments — reminding listeners that gratitude can often become a powerful foundation for change.
Episode 3 – Difference & Resilience
Episode 5 – Grief & Loss
In this powerful episode, the conversation explores difference and resilience — recognising how individual experiences, challenges, and personal journeys shape who we are. Through honest reflection and real-life perspective, the episode highlights the strength it takes to overcome adversity, adapt to change, and continue moving forward despite setbacks. It is a thoughtful discussion about accepting difference, building inner strength, and understanding that resilience often grows through the most difficult moments.
In this thoughtful and sensitive episode, the conversation explores grief and loss, reflecting on the emotional impact that loss can have on individuals and how people navigate difficult periods of change, sadness, and adjustment. Through honest discussion and personal insight, the episode looks at the different ways grief can be experienced, the importance of understanding emotions, and how support, reflection, and resilience can help people move forward while carrying loss in meaningful ways.
Episode 4 – Homelessness and Helsinki
In this episode, Lisa interviews Henry about their recent visit to Helsinki, Finland, where they explored Housing First projects and gained first-hand insight into how the country has successfully reduced and, in many areas, effectively eradicated homelessness. Together, they discuss what they observed, the principles behind the Finnish approach, and how long-term housing solutions, support, and policy have helped create lasting change. The conversation offers a fascinating look at one of the world’s most recognised homelessness models and reflects on what can be learned from it.
Episode 6 – Coercive Control
Lisa interviews 2 guests who work and support people who have experienced coercive control. In this important episode, Lisa interviews two guests who work closely with and support people who have experienced coercive control. Through informed discussion and professional insight, they explore what coercive control can look like, the impact it has on individuals, and the challenges many people face in recognising and escaping controlling relationships. The conversation highlights the importance of awareness, support, and understanding, while giving voice to an issue that often remains hidden.